Procurement management resilience Procurement management resilience remains critical to most nations and organizations’ recovery. Effective procurement management ensures quality over control, higher efficiency, faster production cycle, reduced production costs, better service, customer relationship, and an overall improvement in a company’s financial performance. The entry of COVID 19 pandemic into the world and the subsequent impact and implications have adversely impacted households, businesses, and the economy. Notably, distributors and manufacturers have found it difficult to replenish or replace their machinery or equipment and inventory due to global procurement disruption. The pandemic has forced industries to adopt strategies to ensure they continue running operations and combating the pandemic without making significant losses. Similarly, some industries have reaped significant benefits from the pandemic as demand for certain goods has continued to grow tremendously. Therefore, this paper compares the overall summary of selected research articles on the impact of COVID 19 on procurement, the comparative scenario of impact on two industries, and impact on the procurement on one item. Comparative Overall SummaryCorona virus pandemic continues disrupting numerous supply chains on a global scale. As…

  Hot and Cool Executive Functioning  In Lesion study, he identified the distinction between hot and cool EF to be, hot EF is dissociable from executive functioning, and that impairment in hot EF is assessed by the measure of making risky decisions, gambling, and discounting delays, and many others these things can occur if cool EF impairment is absent. The cool and hot EF, therefore, were found to develop independently. Hence the hot EF delayed or took a different development trajectory when compared to cool EF. Although cool and hot EF are dissociated in the brains of Lesion, it’s important to note that they can work together as an adaptive function which is more general; therefore, this difference is important since for a person to solve a problem which is motivationally significant (Zelazo & Carlson, 2012). He first needs to step back and start reflecting upon those problems for him to contextualize them and have them considered an abstract.                   Reference Zelazo, P. D., & Carlson, S. M. (2012). Hot and cool…

 Cross-cultural factors and environmental variation  Cross-cultural factors and environmental variation are crucial factors when one is studying cognitive development; this is because both of these factors affect the cognitive development of a child in one way or another. Cross-culture will allow children to learn by enabling them to experience different psychological processes present in the community through guidance, modeling, and instructions. On the other hand, environmental variation will influence cognitive development through the kind of exposure and opportunity the child has when he is growing; also, the child’s socio-economic background may determine the level of cognitive development he might be able to achieve. Cross-cultural and environmental variation Culture has been described as a developmental niche conceptualized where children acquire skills and knowledge; we can see that Indian and Chinese children are usually more concerned about their relationship with other people when discussing conflict and are less concerned about their self-interest. This is contrary to what the Western children do when dealing with that same situation; priorities of cultures have been seen to affect different values when it comes to emotions.…

                        THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION Name Institution Instructor Course Date           Future of Education Introduction Education change refers to the goal of amendment of some public education changes intending to introduce education in the form of an input and output system. The forms of education reforms include the thought that the small change seen in education will have considerable community achievements in individuals’ health, wealth, and well-being. Education being the government’s superior stone, focuses on the approval of school movement, systemic reform initiatives, assessment, and accountability reforms. In the past, reforms on education took different systems compared to today; for example, education focused on output that is the student’s achievement in the education sector. Therefore, it only benefitted the high performing students more. The system has conceptualized equality as the starting point of education for all the students in the United States of America. Currently, changes in reforming education can either be implemented by individual educators, the board of school-based organizations, and curriculum changes with…

Liberalism In a world where opinions matter, China’s approach to leadership is perceived as realists. Xi Jinping’s declaration has boosted realist interpretations. In realism, a nation’s state is perceived as a unitary actor, and therefore decision-makers act in pursuit of national interest. Realism often draws on the repetitive patterns of the past. China’s long-term goal is to transform itself into a world superpower. Liberalism is rooted in the notion of strengthening institutional ties and reducing the chances of a conflict. Therefore, liberals believe that the integration of China into the global economy will reduce threats that the region poses to the global economy. Regarding the rise of China, there are several contexts that the theory can be argued. For instance, proponents such as Kenneth Waltz and Han’s Morgenthau belief in diverse pessimists’ assumptions that human nature is selfish. Furthermore, international systems are believed to be archaic. This means that the authority does not go beyond the state level. As a result, self-interested sovereign states are created to compete for power and security globally wise. The competition for such power, therefore,…

  Cognitive development             Cross-cultural variation, especially in behavior, is a significant factor that should be clearly understood when studying cultural behaviors; this is because the cognitive development in a cultural setting will be contributed more by their kin, community members, and peers. Those types of people will allow them to learn through the different social-psychological processes present in the community, such as instructions, modeling, shared activities, or guidance. This kind of opportunity is implicitly and explicitly arranged to fit the individual and developmental needs of a child; they occur in an informal and formal setting (Kärtner et al., 2020). When a particular child can participate in a cultural activity, at that time, he is being introduced to the conventional way of acting and thinking of that specific cultural community. However, children develop cognitive prowess through the transactions they have with tools, symbols, and cultural members. E.g., children from North America and Western Europe tend to describe themselves by their unique characteristics like I am good at drawing. While children from Asia, Africa, South America, and Southern Europe tend to…

Introduction Gender inequality is a global social issue that has existed since time immemorial. These inequalities reflect a lack of respect for women’s rights in the social, economic, and cultural arena. The context of this problem varies in various countries according to the cultural background of the people. In Kenya, which is our study population, girls and women, especially in rural areas, have to continually deal with issues of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), domestic violence, and early marriages. At the same time, those in the urban areas grapple with employment discrimination and child custody issues. It is for these reasons that the Federacion Internacional de Abogadas (FIDA) initiative was introduced in Kenya in 1985, whose main objective is to promote women’s personal and collective willpower to champion for their rights in all sectors of life (). Background Historical information highlights various instances where women have experienced immense discrimination (UNDP, 2020). From insufficient women’s legal rights, domestic violence, and workplace discrimination, women worldwide continue to fight for their rightful position in society. In Kenya, a developing country, the situation is even…

  “The convict.” The convict is episode nine of the series called the office. The episode original script was written by Ricky Gervais and Merchant Steven, the famous inventors of the same name’s original comedy series. The series shows the way the office employees in Scranton and Stamford carry their daily lives. In this episode, Michael realizes that Martin Nash, an employee who came with branches, was in prison. Michaels feels bitter when Martin’s stories related to prison becomes cool than daily working in the office. Jim tricks pam by giving wrong information on how to win her favors. RacismOften, the black is seen as the weak in the society, their colleagues the whites believe there are some rights they can access, but the black people cannot. However, not all whites are against black people; some are so caring and go to fight for the black’s rights. Michael defends the new black employee by all means. Angela, Kevin, Michael, and Jan had a conference talk about checking claims they had received. Jan argues that the team checks since the federal…

Introduction Mount Saint Vincent University can use the Five Generic Competitive Strategy and SWOT analysis to determine its competitive advantage. According to Gürel & Tat (2017), generic competitive advantage helps an organization provide value to customers by exploiting its core competencies. Thus, the university can use a generic strategy to ensure students’ well-being by ensuring effective leadership that meets their primary needs. Furthermore, Mount may consider SWOT analysis a simple and useful framework for identifying its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The university can apply SWOT analysis in formulating developments, addressing the missing equipment, minimizing risks, and taking advantage of the available chances for success. Generic Strategy Followed by Mount Based on the Five Generic Competitive Strategy, Mount is following the differentiation to sustain its competitive advantage. According to Onorato (2017), product differentiation is a marketing strategy that allows an organization to differentiate its products from competitors. The difference could be of higher quality, better services, improve performance, etc. In this sense, differentiation has allowed the university to provide students with various courses and learning methods. For example, Mount offers…

Backup Strategies Companies and organizations back up there data for various reasons; however, the main reason for backup is for uncertainty, the fear of data intrusion leading to loss of important data. There are various types of data backup strategies used by companies according to their considerations, including full, incremental and differential backups. A full backup is the backup of all data in another location. It is, therefore, the most comprehensive backup type because it involves copying the whole data to another location (Wertheimer et al. 2015). Full backup leaves nothing to chances in the form of data or information. It is done with a view that in cases of intrusion in one place, the other place will provide whole data. Incremental backup type deals with information that has changed since the last backup was done. It is an adjustment of the existing data based on reviews and new data that may be superseding the earlier stored (Tekade, Groose and Mutalik, 2015). Differential backups mean copying the data changed since the last full data backup. Therefore it is related to…